[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Ralph W. Lambrecht" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:51:51 +0100
Did you ever think or say: 'Wow, great print, wonder how they did it?'
The process of creation is important, because it becomes part of what the
final product is. If the image alone were important, well done posters or
reproductions would enjoy the same appreciation as the original print.
Would you feel cheated if the 'original' AA print you just bought turned out
to be a well done laser print on FB paper. Sure you would, I would. But why
is that, if the image alone is important? They look identical. They just
differ by the way they were made.
I've seen art defined as 'conscious creation of a unique aesthetic product'.
We can argue about the precise definition of art (if there is one), but I
have not seen one where creation is not part of the definition.
Consequently, the creation becomes part of the art itself.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2006-12-16 01:04, "Bill Stephenson" <photographica@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tim, I have to disagree. How the image reaches the paper has no more
> relevance to the impact, interest, or what have you, than how you get
> to the Grand Canyon affects how the Canyon looks. Fly and take a cab;
> drive; hitchhike; hike - whatever. The Canyon is not affected by your
> means of reaching it. A good print ("good" as in "interesting", or
> "engaging") is a good print. In exhibitions, I've never walked up to a
> print and said "Wow - looks like Tri-X in Rodinal on Ilfobrome
> w/Dektol, 68 degrees F for processing" - and I doubt that I ever will.
> I *have* walked up to a print and said "Wow! That's an interesting face
> - and a nice image of it."
>
> I don't care what camera, lens, film, light, developer, enlarger, lens,
> paper, easel, developer, and so on were used to make a print. If the
> print is boring, dull, uninteresting, unengaging, etc., the process
> amounts to (first choice word deleted for politeness) zilch.
>
> -Bill
>
> On Friday, December 15, 2006, at 03:58 PM, Tim Rudman wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, I know what the image is Dana, and how it gets onto the print is
>> critical to how it communicates with the viewer - and therefore how
>> 'interesting' it is (to that viewer), or perhaps 'engaging' might be a
>> better term for what I mean.
>>
>> Tim
>
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